title: Useful beautiful minds-an analysis of the relationship between schizophrenia and employment.
abstract: This paper examines the relationship between schizophrenia and employment. We use longitudinal register data and show a considerable drop in the employment rate for people with schizophrenia six years before the first treatment at a psychiatric facility. After the first treatment, the employment rate stabilizes at 18%. The difference in the employment rate in 2007 for siblings with and without schizophrenia is estimated at 67%. This difference is reduced to 62% when we include additional control variables. The results remain unchanged when we apply a sibling fixed effects approach that controls for the unobserved family specific characteristics that the siblings share.
authors.affiliation: Rockwool Foundation Research Unit, Sølvgade 10, 2. tv., 1307 Copenhagen K, Denmark. Electronic address: jg@rff.dk.
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Greve
authors.forename: Louise Herrup
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Nielsen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003718:Denmark; D036262:Empirical Research; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015233:Models, Statistical; D012042:Registries; D012559:Schizophrenia; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Danish administrative data; Employment; I10; J21; Severe mental disorder; Sibling fixed effects